Samuel Griffin

Samuel Griffin (20 April 1746-23 November 1810) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-VA 10) from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1793 (preceding Carter Bassett Harrison) and from VA-13 from 4 March 1793 to 4 March 1795 (preceding John Clopton).

Biography
Samuel Griffin was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1746, and he was admitted to the bar before serving in the Continental Army as aide-de-camp to Charles Lee during the American Revolutionary War, being wounded at the Battle of Harlem Heights in 1776. In December 1776, he led 900 militia and Virginia regulars into Mount Holly, New Jersey and harassed Carl von Donop's Hessian pickets near Bordentown, resulting in the Battle of Iron Works Hill, which prevented Von Donop from reinforcing Johann Rall at the Battle of Trenton. Griffin went on to serve as Mayor of Williamsburg from 1779 to 1780 and in the US House of Representatives from 1789 to 1795, and he died in 1810.